The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-01
WARAM0NG THE BOTTLES
SODA WATER AND GINGER POP
DIVIDING NATIONALITIES

| nually-A Few Figures That cannot
Tell Fibs.
Competition is the life of trade says an
old saw, and in this age of rapid progress
the truth of the old adage has been proved
time and again. But though competition is
thereby boon, it is by no means an I'M
mixed blessing because of it. The merchant
whose life is naturally one of peace, whose
cares ought TO end when he turns the key in
his store door is forced to pass many
sleepleSs night and spend many an hour
worrying over the advances his rival is
making, while If it were not for competition
he could quietly pocket his hundred or
two per cent, and put his little nickel in
the missionary box without begrudging the
gift
Competition, like love, levels all ranks,
and in the warfare that it inspires railroad
corporations and rag pckers, cotton aSso-
Citations and the manufacturers of the latest
patent spiral wire bustles, participate.
There is one business, however, that has
hitherto been untroubled by the battles of
commercial warfare The clarion note
of war has never before been heard
within its peaceful precincts. but that
peace has flown and now fierce, bitter and
protracted is the struggle that Is going on
| between the manufacturers of soda water,
sarsaparilla and ginger pop. Not IN some
distant cline, untrOd by the foot OF lynx
eyed special correspondents or our own
| artists, Is this war raging. but here, with
in the limits of Savannah and under the eyes
of the blue-Coated, gold-Striped guardians Of
| the peace. vet il excited not as much inter
est as would the news that another Irish
| tenant had been evicted or another cat had
| fallen down the Emperor Williams chin
l,,r
for all that the war is being bitterly waged.
! 1t is more fierce and cruel in
its nature because of a race queS-
ton that is involved therein.
There is a difference of blood, and for that
reason both sides are fighting with all their
might and main.
The cause of this disturbance of the peace
by the manufacturers of these non
intoxicating drinks dates back some
weeks An Irish firm was do
ing a large and profitable business.
| Their customers We're many, and were De-
coming more and more numerous. They
added one or two German saloon keepers 10
their list, and gradually they were getting
a large German patronage. The German
manufacturers at last realized that their
countrvmeG were deserving them and seek
ing the side of down-trOdden ireland, 50
they put their heads together to see what
could be done. Finally it was determined
that they must visit the deserterS and appeal
to them On the score Of national pride.
and national prejudice and try and win them
back II was also resolved that ii such ar
guments were of no avail they would resort
to one that they were sure would be infalh-
bic, viz: a drop in the price. They entered
the saloon of a prominent deserter, and as
they approached the dispenser OF liquid JOY
they said:
Vel, how YOU vaS.'
''Oh. purity goot.
"HowS heeSnesS.'
Il don't can complain
You sell of dot sody vasSer much now:"
''Oh, vas
"Vy you don't vas pying so much as you
vas"
"Oh, I py nit dem otter fellers now"
Vat pv NIT dem Irish' Mine Colt in
himmel, You don't NIT dem Irish drade
ven dere is us vrom faterlandt here NIT der
same beeSneSs in 2
''Oh. vas l vas pleased NIT dem Irish,
I'M gets good stuff NIT dem
Den YOU don't dakes some more vrom US
ChermansT'
No, l dinks notn
"Whise, Not YOU pay DEM"
'Sevunty fife cends.
Il sell you dot goots for seexty-fife."
Sent me seek dozen right away quick"
Thus this pendulum swung back 20 its
former position. but it WIS not destined to
remain there long, for next morning when
the Irish deliyerer made his rounds and car
ried in the usual supply he was not little
startled 70 hear the old German say:
Git nit you oud Of dis gvick. l don't
want some OF dot.
well. did YOU liver hesr the loikes Of
that. What de We name, We duTty, ouid,
fat son wv beer barTelf exclaimed the in
dlgnant Ir!shman.
| The German gave an explanation of his
change, whereupon the IriShman said:
well be the sowl of St Patrick did vez
liver. Does We be be thinking III shtand by
ana let the loiks av thin be taking me
bread out ONE mouth loike that. Divil a
clint viii they be making at their sOdy
wather fur these six months comm. but oil
bate thin yet. OH sell yez JhOt same fur
fifty cintS.'
The pendulum made another vibration,
but he has got no cheaper soda since then.
for the IriShman struck bed rock, and soda
has been lying AT SOC a box or 25c. a dozen
ever since. and the representative Of each
, | nationality are moving heaven and earth TO
fix the recTeant saloon keepers on one
side or another before returning 10
old prices, but IL seems impossible
TO do so, for no sooner does one side think il
| has them firmly than the other comes in,
spends quarter at the bar and gets an
order. They are the bone Of contention.
neN are 70 trefllalN anu lreASllU IN c>ttNatl-
nah what AlSsce and Lorraine are TO Ger
many and France IN the Old country.
To the casual reader it might sem that
all this quarrel Is over nothing. but not so.
The carbonated water interest here Is large
and profitable. There are 2lg licensed
saloons in Savannah, and a barkeeper OF
long years experience estimates that each
will sell on an average, two boxes, or four
dozen bottles of soda, Sarsaparilla and GIN
ger pop combined each week 4 very little
arithmetic will show that upon that basis
the annual sales viii be IS. b52 dozen, or
$40, ga bottles. One-fourth of that amount
is sold at the better class OF saloons and
brings loo. per bottle making Sl3. jtj 80 per
annum. The reLa inder is sold az Sc. and
it footS up the round amount OF So, +9S 20,
making a total Of 80. l6i that Is raked in by
the tireleSs arm Of the barkeeper every year
for Temperance drinks But one cannot re-
alize from the figures given what an enor-
nous amount that represents. Those
j46,624 bottles are pints, and any
one having 'he inclination 70
divide that uumh,~ 10y a dozen or more diff
. ferent divisoI> " ind, when be reaches
{ the result, that OBJ ho-Sheads Of these
waters are swallowed annually: that j.. 4.
his result Is correct. Il would he rash n
attempt an estimate Of the manufacturer
profit, but the Imagination viii doubles,
start 20 work when il is known that thesa
[ drinks are only carloVatei water navorvi